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#1

“True strength is knowing that you don't have to be strong every single second of the day.”
― Mandy Hale, The Single Woman–Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass: Embracing Singleness with Confidence

tags: authenticity, being-strong, healing, heartbreak, letting-down-the-walls, letting-go, letting-your-guard-down, loss, moving-on, positive-thinking, sadness, strength, vulnerability

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#2

“Being brave enough to be alone frees you up to invite people into your life because you want them and not because you need them.”
― Mandy Hale, The Single Woman–Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass: Embracing Singleness with Confidence

tags: attitude, being-single, brave, confidence, independence, loving-yourself, positive-thinking, positivity, self-worth, single, single-life, the-single-woman

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#3

“Don't ignore the love you DO have in your life by focusing on the love you DON'T.”
― Mandy Hale, The Single Woman–Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass: Embracing Singleness with Confidence

tags: being-single, blessings, contentment, finding-love, friendship, glass-half-full, loneliness, love, loving-people, loving-yourself, positive-thinking, relationships, single, single-life, single-woman, singleness, the-single-woman

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#4

“If a man WANTS to be with you, he will make his actions clear. There won’t be any questions, murkiness, cloudiness, or fear.”
― Mandy Hale, The Single Woman–Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass: Embracing Singleness with Confidence

tags: dating, he-s-just-not-that-into-you, holding-out-for-the-best, love, not-settling, positive-thinking, relationships, standards

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#5

“Be a bit of a challenge; not because you're playing games but because you realize you're worth the extra effort.”
― Mandy Hale, The Single Woman–Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass: Embracing Singleness with Confidence

tags: be-hard-to-get, being-single, challenge, dating, know-your-value, love, loving-yourself, play-hard-to-get, positive-thinking, relationships, self-worth, single-life, the-single-woman

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#6

“You will evolve past certain people. Let yourself.”
― Mandy Hale, The Single Woman–Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass: Embracing Singleness with Confidence

tags: evolution, evolve, friends, friendship, growth, letting-go, moving-on, positive-thinking, seasonal-friendships, seasons, the-single-woman

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#7

“Someone out there is looking for exactly what you've got…and will never try and undercut your value or question your worth. Some things in life just can’t be bartered over or placed on the sale rack – and your self-worth is at the top of the list.”
― Mandy Hale, The Single Woman–Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass: Embracing Singleness with Confidence

tags: being-true-to-yourself, loving-yourself, not-settling, self-worth, standards, value, worth, worthiness

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#8

“Our friends have a way of reminding us of how fabulous we are when the rest of the world has forgotten.”
― Mandy Hale, The Single Woman–Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass: Embracing Singleness with Confidence

tags: friends, friendship, positive-thinking, the-single-woman, true-friends

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#9

“So many people are so terrified to be alone that they settle for a loveless relationship or stay trapped in a miserable one for months and even years on end. But as it turns out, alone means unique, unequaled, and unexcelled. Or in other words: Unparalleled. Unrepeatable. Unable to be imitated or duplicated. Brave. FABULOUSLY ORIGINAL.”
― Mandy Hale, The Single Woman–Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass: Embracing Singleness with Confidence

tags: alone, attitude, celebrating-your-single-life, fabulous, independence, independent-woman, living-in-the-moment, loving-yourself, original, positive-thinking, positive-thoughts, positivity, self-worth, single-life, the-single-woman, uniqueness

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#10

“If something on the inside is telling you that someone isn’t right for you, they’re NOT right for you, no matter how great they might look on paper. When it’s right for you, you will know. And when it’s not – it’s time to go.”
― Mandy Hale, The Single Woman–Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass: Embracing Singleness with Confidence

tags: gut, gut-feeling, holding-out-for-the-best, inner-voice, intuition, not-settling, positive-thinking, red-flags, still-small-voice, trust-your-gut, trust-yourself

61 likes

#11

“I wonder how many people I've looked at all my life and never seen.”
― John Steinbeck, The Winter of Our Discontent

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#12

“You've seen the sun flatten and take strange shapes just before it sinks in the ocean. Do you have to tell yourself every time that it's an illusion caused by atmospheric dust and light distorted by the sea, or do you simply enjoy the beauty of it?”
― John Steinbeck, Sweet Thursday

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#13

“There are as many worlds as there are kinds of days, and as an opal changes its colors and its fire to match the nature of a day, so do I.”
― John Steinbeck

tags: mornings, new-beginnings, steinbeck, travel

192 likes

#14

“We all want to break our orbits, float like a satellite gone wild in space, run the risk of disintegration. We all want to take our lives in our own hands and hurl them out among the stars.”
― David Bottoms

tags: boredom, breaking-free, breaking-the-rules, changes, life, new, new-beginnings

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#15

“Well, we all make mistakes, dear, so just put it behind you. We should regret our mistakes and learn from them, but never carry them forward into the future with us.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Avonlea

tags: inspirational, mistakes

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#16

“We are all mistaken sometimes; sometimes we do wrong things, things that have bad consequences. But it does not mean we are evil, or that we cannot be trusted ever afterward.”
― Alison Croggon

tags: forgiveness, mistakes, trust

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#17

“I am tired of people saying that poor character is the only reason people do wrong things. Actually, circumstances cause people to act a certain way. It's from those circumstances that a person's attitude is affected followed by weakening of character. Not the reverse. If we had no faults of our own, we should not take so much pleasure in noticing those in others and judging their lives as either black or white, good or bad. We all live our lives in shades of gray.”
― Shannon L. Alder

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#18

“If I have gained anything over these months, it is the knowledge there is no starting over- only living with the mistakes you've made.”
― Jodi Picoult, Perfect Match

tags: living, mistakes

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#19

“In school we learn that mistakes are bad, and we are punished for making them. Yet, if you look at the way humans are designed to learn, we learn by making mistakes. We learn to walk by falling down. If we never fell down, we would never walk.”
― Robert T. Kiyosaki, Rich Dad, Poor Dad

tags: humanity, inspirational, mistakes, risk, school

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#20

“We look down our noses at people who've made mistakes in relationships. She's so stupid! How could she do that! Our superiority makes us feel better. But I’d bet everything I have on the fact that people to claim to have a perfect record in love are either lying or have very limited dating experience. People who say, I’d never do that! Someday, unless you are very, very lucky, you’ll have a story to tell. Or not to tell.”
― Deb Caletti, The Secret Life of Prince Charming

tags: dating, love, mistakes, relationships

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#21

“Thinking there is something better out there in the world, something worth more than you already have- of all my mistakes,that was my biggest.”
― Louise Candlish, Before We Say Goodbye

tags: life, mistakes

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#22

“Sometimes the best and worst times of your life can coincide. It is a talent of the soul to discover the joy in pain—-thinking of moments you long for, and knowing you’ll never have them again. The beautiful ghosts of our past haunt us, and yet we still can’t decide if the pain they caused us out weighs the tender moments when they touched our soul. This is the irony of love.”
― Shannon L. Alder

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#23

“Words can be twisted into any shape. Promises can be made to lull the heart and seduce the soul. In the final analysis, words mean nothing. They are labels we give things in an effort to wrap our puny little brains around their underlying natures, when ninety-nine percent of the time the totality of the reality is an entirely different beast. The wisest man is the silent one. Examine his actions. Judge him by them.”
― Karen Marie Moning

tags: actions, labels, promises, reality, silence, soul, truth, words

1134 likes

#24

“If you've never eaten while crying you don t know what life tastes like.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

tags: crying, life, reality

1048 likes

#25

“nothing in this world was more difficult than love.”
― Gabriel García Márquez

tags: life, love, reality, relationships

1218 likes

#26

“You don't have to disrespect and insult others simply to hold your own ground. If you do, that shows how shaky your own position is.”
― Red Haircrow

tags: life, life-lessons, reality

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#27

“Last night I wept. I wept because the process by which I have become woman was painful. I wept because I was no longer a child with a child's blind faith. I wept because my eyes were opened to reality....I wept because I could not believe anymore and I love to believe. I can still love passionately without believing. That means I love humanly. I wept because I have lost my pain and I am not yet accustomed to its absence.”
― Anaïs Nin, Henry and June: The Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin, 1931-1932

tags: love, pain, reality

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#28

“Maybe each human being lives in a unique world, a private world different from those inhabited and experienced by all other humans. . . If reality differs from person to person, can we speak of reality singular, or shouldn't we really be talking about plural realities? And if there are plural realities, are some more true (more real) than others? What about the world of a schizophrenic? Maybe it's as real as our world. Maybe we cannot say that we are in touch with reality and he is not, but should instead say, His reality is so different from ours that he can't explain his to us, and we can't explain ours to him. The problem, then, is that if subjective worlds are experienced too differently, there occurs a breakdown in communication ... and there is the real illness.”
― Philip K. Dick

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#29

“When you are mad, mad like this, you don't know it. Reality is what you see. When what you see shifts, departing from anyone else's reality, it's still reality to you.”
― Marya Hornbacher, Madness: A Bipolar Life

tags: bipolar-disorder, madness, manic-depression, mental-illness, reality

484 likes

#30

“Farewells can be shattering, but returns are surely worse. Solid flesh can never live up to the bright shadow cast by its absence. Time and distance blur the edges; then suddenly the beloved has arrived, and it's noon with its merciless light, and every spot and pore and wrinkle and bristle stands clear.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin

tags: memory, reality, return

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